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Marion College (Missouri)
Marion College was the first college to be chartered by the Missouri state legislature, and the second educational institution in Missouri to be granted the right to confer college and university degrees. Founded in 1831, Marion College was originally planned as a manual labor college focusing primarily on agriculture, while also teaching classics. From 1835, it also incorporated a Seminary, theological seminary. The school was founded by private individuals, but was strongly Presbyterianism, Presbyterian. Its three schools were located in Philadelphia, Missouri , Philadelphia, Ely, Missouri , East Ely and West Ely, Missouri , West Ely in Marion County, Missouri. The college attracted many investors, faculty and students from the East. It was opposed by proslavery residents of northeastern Missouri, who were particularly critical of founder and president David Nelson (abolitionist), David Nelson, an Abolitionism in the United States, antislavery activist. Marion College was also pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manual Labor College
A manual labor college was a type of school in the United States, primarily between 1825 and 1860, in which work, usually agricultural or mechanical, supplemented academic activity. The manual labor model was intended to make educational opportunities more widely available to students with limited means, and to make the schools more viable economically. The work was seen as morally beneficial as well as healthful; at the time, this was innovative and equalitarian thinking. According to the trustees of the Lane Theological Seminary: These "colleges" usually included what we would today (2019) call high school ("preparatory") as well as college level instruction. At the time, the only public schools were at the elementary level, and there were no rules distinguishing colleges from high schools. The four states with the largest number of such schools were New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. George W. Gale George W. Gale was the founder of the first and best-known American e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |